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zebra mussels

Summer 2024

Muscling through

Invasive mussels could soon enter B.C.'s waterways. If they do, it would be a disaster

Neha Chollangi

Merely the size of a fingernail, with a striped pattern on their shells, zebra and quagga mussels have a powerful grip. They make their way into new bodies of water by clinging to the hulls of boats and ships. Once they invade a water body, they attach themselves to native mussels, causing them to suffocate. […] More »